[editor's note, by Clarkin08] I am posing a serious question here, and in the early comments have received few thoughtful answers, and none that are directly pertinent. Please ignore them. If you can think of any good reason for the Democratic party to nominate any candidate with fewer than 2,209 delegates supporting them, I would like to know what that is.

2024.5 delegates needed to nominate.  That's the Obama line.  It's also the current DNC line, I think.  Most everyone in the Republican owned media is spouting the same line.  The trouble is, that's significantly less than half the delegates that States and Territories will send to the Democratic National Convention.  So, I'm wondering why anyone thinks it's such a great idea, and I hope those of you who do can clear this up for me.

I've been a Democrat for a very long time, and thus far I don't believe I've ever seen such a risky idea being pushed so hard by so many of my fellow Democrats.  

As I recall (and I may be wrong about this), way back at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, John Kennedy just barely won the party nomination at the end of the third roll call when Wyoming cast its votes for him. In other words, after a very hard and prolonged fight on the floor of the convention, he was nominated by the slimmest of party majorities, just barely more than half the delegates sent to the convention.  He agreed to put Lyndon Johnson on the ticket to appeal to southern Democrats and unify the party.  That November,  these two awesome Democratic Party candidates together managed to eke out the slimmest general election victory in history against a Republican that few Democrats thought fit to be President. And some Republicans still maintain that they won it only because Richard Daley got a fair number of dead people to vote for the brilliant, charming young Irish Catholic war hero from Massachusetts with the beautiful young wife and family.  Now, just imagine how many more dead people Mayor Daley (and other mayors all around the USA) might have needed to get to vote for JFK if the Democratic Party had stupidly nominated JFK with only about 45% of its delegates voting for him at the Convention.